<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I am thinking the same, to revert the video to analog and then if you ever need to revive these archives may bring future problems as you have taken the archives technically further back in time than necessary. I would suggest you back them up to mini DV or digital 8, either tape format will not compress the iMovie data, if possible I would choose the mini DV plus the same file on a hard drive. With higher capacity DVD disks just around the corner that would be a good choice for future proofing the raw full quality DV files as well .<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Gerhard </div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On Feb 10, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Donald Tully wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Josh - I have no answer to your problem, but, for my own edification, I'm wondering why you archive to Hi-8 tapes rather than archive quality DVD's. Capacity?<br><br>Don/</span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>